Professor Emeritus of History and Asian American Studies at California State University, Fullerton, where he retired in 2008 as the director of the Center for Oral and Public History. Between 2001 and 2005, he served as Senior Historian at the Japanese American National Museum.
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Viewing Seattle's Nikkei Community through Multiple Lenses
During the first two decades of the twentieth century, Seattle was the West Coast’s most popu…
April 8, 2014
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Memories of a Colleague and Friend: Karin Higa
On the afternoon of Wednesday, October 30, 2013, four current Japanese American National Museum (JA…
Nov. 22, 2013
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A Stirring Memoir of Adolescent Manzanar Stories Weaved With Senior Hiking Adventures
My first trip of many to the World War II Manzanar concentration camp site occurred in the spring o…
Nov. 14, 2013
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A Historical Anthology on Redress
In the 2011 PAN-JAPAN special issue NEGLECTED LEGACIES: Japanese American Women and the Redress/Rep…
Oct. 18, 2013
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Pan-Japan (journal)
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Sansei
social action
United States
women
World War II
activism
Arthur A. Hansen
book reviews
Cherry Kinoshita
civil liberties
Civil Liberties Act of 1988
generations
Grant Ujifusa
Grayce Uyehara
imprisonment
incarceration
Lane Ryo Hirabayashi
law
legislation
Pan-Japan (journal)
Redress movement
reviews
Sansei
social action
United States
women
World War II
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Asian American Movement Study Showcases U.S. Cultural Radicalism’s Robust Tradition
At California State University, Fullerton, I taught history, Asian American studies and American st…
Oct. 30, 2013
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Foreword to Nurse of Manzanar - Part 3 of 3
Read Part 2 >> As a historian who has spent the better part of the last four decades res…
May 6, 2013
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Foreword to Nurse of Manzanar - Part 2 of 3
Read Part 1 >> I would like to enter one final comment about the intrinsic merit of Tosh…
April 29, 2013
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Foreword to Nurse of Manzanar - Part 1 of 3
Whenever I encounter a memoir such as that at the heart of Nurse of Manzanar: A Japanese American&r…
April 22, 2013
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BETRAYED TRUST: The Story of a Deported Issei and His American-born Family during World War II - Foreword Part 2
Read Part 1 >> As one who was a close friend of Michi Weglyn’s, I am quite sure th…
Jan. 31, 2013
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BETRAYED TRUST: The Story of a Deported Issei and His American-Born Family During World War II - Foreword Part 1
Betrayed Trust: The Story of a Deported Issei and His American-born Family during World War II is a…
Jan. 24, 2013
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5pm PDT | 7pm PET
Featured Nima:
Graciela Nakachi
Guest Host:
Enrique Higa
Presented in Spanish
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